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Wing Commander Anthony Kelly, in charge of the Air Cadets, said ambulances had been unable to find the base twice before.

The inquest heard that one vehicle got
lost because 'there were too many blue doors' on her street while
another stopped for petrol while answering the 999 call in March.

An ambulance was immediately called at 7.44pm but was sent to RAF Wyton, 10 miles away, by mistake. The error meant it did not arrive until 8.03pm

Elouise, who had suffered from asthma since she was 18 months old, died at the scene. Her mother told an inquest she rushed to her daughter's side after she had called her saying she felt unwell

In October last year, another inquest heard that Evelyn Heath, 93, from Attleborough, Norfolk, died from an irregular heartbeat in the back of an ambulance after the vehicle took more than four hours to reach her care home.

Wing Commander Anthony Kelly, who is
in charge of Air Cadets in Huntingdon, told the inquest at Huntingdon
Law Courts that there had been incidents in 2006 and 2012 when
ambulances had been unable to find the base because of an issue over the
postcode.

'My understanding is that the matters were reported to the ambulance service,' he added.

Since Elouise's deaths, both sites have been allocated individual postcodes.

The inquest continues.

Elouise Keeling collapsed with breathing problems at RAF Brampton near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. An ambulance was immediately called at 7.44pm but was sent to RAF Wyton, 10 miles away, by mistake

Delays: Emergency services were called when Elouise had an asthma attack but paramedics did not reach her in time and she died

CATALOGUE OF FAILURES AT SCANDAL-HIT AMBULANCE SERVICE

Lost: Three-month-old Bella Hellings died when paramedics took 26 minutes to reach her after she had a fit and got lost again on the way to hospital

In December, 79-year-old Barry Edwards died after an
ambulance took two-and-a-half hours to arrive. Mr Edwards only lived
just over a mile from Addenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge, where he was
eventually treated, but it was only after three calls to 999 that an
ambulance was sent from 83 miles away in Great Yarmouth to take him to
hospital. He died the next morning.

In January an
unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission warned the East of
England Ambulance Service Trust to improve its care of patients after
receiving several complaints from people who had waited up to three
hours for an ambulance to take them to hospital.

Later
that month, police officers complained that they were having to take
patients to hospital 'on a daily basis' because no EEAST ambulances were
available, and were regularly having to wait 'an inordinate amount of
time' for their paramedic colleagues to arrive at the scene of an
emergency.

A week later, firefighters warned that
something was 'going seriously wrong with the 999 response' of the
EEAST. They said they were waiting 'longer and longer' for ambulances to
arrive and found paramedics often arrived alone on motorbikes or cars
and were unable to transport patients to hospital. Keith Handscomb, of
East Anglia FBU, said: 'Fire officers tell us of their desperate
frustration at being told to
wait in line when chasing up emergency requests for the attendance of an
ambulance. Sometimes they are told the ambulance sent to their
emergency has been
redirected to another call due to there being no other ambulance
available.'

In March, three-month-old Bella Hellings died
after she suffered a fit and the ambulance that was supposed to be
taking her to hospital got lost twice. The driver had been relying on a
satnav and took 26 minutes to reach her at home in Bury St Edmunds, more
than three times the target time of eight minutes. They got lost again
on the way to hospital, where Bella was pronounced dead.